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Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Thursday Think Tank # 77 - The City

A lot of poetry comes from the environment around poets. One such environment is the great and grey cities. Many people write of the country with lush green fields and open air but today we want you to write about the city. A city with sky scrapers standing majestic or ominous, the lights and shadows it casts at night, the lonely walk amongst the throngs of people, the love you experienced and link memories to. The city tells a great many stories and through your poetry we hope to read and experience some of those stories no matter true or imagined.

We look forward to be a t9ourist and visiting your city today.

If you have a prompt idea (even a Music or Film inspired one) that you would like to suggest or share with us please send it to poetsunited@ymail.com . We keep a folder set aside with all your suggestions and just might use it one day.

There 3 simple rules:

1. Don’t link to more than 3 poems per week.

2. Please visit some of the other poems linked here when you link to yours.

I've been distracted for a while but glad to be back! I enjoy reading the blogs connected here. Love all the city photos too. I did not write about my city so much as the bigger kind of city. I live in a small suburban city that does not have the same feel as a more urban place. But I will write about it as well eventually.

Since cities are one of my favourite poetic muses, I've cheated slightly and used a poem I wrote about a year and a half ago that's published on the City of Edmonton's website at this link:http://www.edmontonstories.ca/story/blessings-and-gratitude-in-edmonton I put it up on my blog as well but am not happy with how it reproduced (which is partly why I'm posting this link); I may try and retype it and, if I have time, I may try to write another city poem ...

Am trying to re-link to this blog as I see it hasn't "taken" yet - might have to wait until new year to resolve but not to worry - poem is posted on The Way Eye See It http://aleapingelephant.blogspot.com/Wishing all at Poets United a Merry Christmas!

Okay - obviously my first try at posting a city poem on my other blog didn't "take" so I decided to put up this rather unorthodox one from last April ... Like Confetti, Pieces of Souls Rained Down can be found here http://thepoet-tree-house.blogspot.com/ Since the homage to my own hometown on my other blog is not showing up, I may move it here also ... happy poeming all and Merry Christmas too!

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